Google wonks beavering away at translating snippets of French into the English language might wish to take note of the following fact - their system thinks "le président américain" is "Bush".
That's George W Bush, we suppose.
Reg reader Robert spotted the amusing cockup when he tried to translate an article from daily French …

Re: Never mind that....

Re: Never mind that....

It's just because Google Translate has a "suggest a better translation" option - enough people must've corrected badly translated stories about Bush that it's decided that this is the best translation.

bush didn't loose

Re: bush didn't loose

You shouldn't feel any better about FDR's whoring for his 4 terms.

Anyone interested in the pretty hilarious and depressing antics he deployed to stay (and die) in office while riding roughshod over any principle of decency and propriety is advised to read John Flynn'sThe Roosevelt Myth. You will wonder why anyone would name a street after such a guy.

Re: bush didn't loose

If you want to use the Grammar Pedant icon, make sure your pedanticism is up to snuff.

Primo, your title should read: "Bush didn't lose" (note the capital and the single letter 'o'), and secundo, "being cut loose from" does in no way imply that he lost some election, just that he exited the White House.

Yes, commander! The president's brain is missing!

Now lets be fair here...

You can't blame Bush for paying Google up front for 4 terms so that they would keep his name in their system. He was simply a bit too eager. Besides; how was he supposed to know he would only last 2 terms? ;-)

It's a default answer:

What bothers me...

is that it's not a proper translation. I'd guess that phrase means "the American president". It doesn't mean a specific American president, so the translation would be incorrect even if it translated as "Obama".